Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinse I had to quit subscribin for TIME I ben buyin it off a barber onct a month an payin for same out of hare cut money my woman leaves me take out the box an him cutting my hare two thurds eech time for what is left insted of all over. If twant shes turibel neer sigted Id have ketched hell an she wuld have busted the barber an now theys compney comin an I dasent do it no more for qite a spel nor wont git to reed it out in the barn like I ben. This...
...weighs 150 lb.); Blake is just a shade above the average U.S. sailor in height and weight. Soldier Short got through the second year of high school; Sailor Blake got his diploma. A onetime filling-station manager, Short left his job when drafted; Blake quit a berth as assistant civil engineer in a CCC camp to make the Navy his career. Since he won his title, Soldier Short has been promoted from private to corporal; Sailor Blake has the same rank he had when he became typical: boat swain's mate, second class...
...headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the show in triumph...
...stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John L Lewis' daughter, Kathryn, refused to talk about a report that she had ditched America First. ∙∙ The Silver Shirts' goat-bearded William Dudley Pel ley, given a suspended sentence in 1935 for breaking...
Schoolmaster Ziemer managed his investigation of Nazi education by such devices as bribing Nazi officials with coffee and persuading Education Minister Bernhard Rust of his professional interest in Nazi educational "efficiency." Ziemer quit Germany for the U.S. at war's outbreak, smuggling out his notes and private Nazi pamphlets by hiding them under copies of Mein Kampf. His book is documented with names, places and direct quotations...